Hi, I'm back from my holiday. I really enjoyed myself and I especially loved Edinburgh (didn't like London all that much to be honest).
I managed to do a lot of STAR WARS related stuff (STAR WARS isn't very big in the Czech Republic, so I always enjoy looking for SW related stuff when I'm abroad.)
I got to hold the SW Blu-Ray box sets in my hand (the empty pre-order samples) in HMV and it is indeed super ugly.
I went to the London Film Museum, which was pretty neat but unfortunately a lot of their SW stuff was borrowed by someone at the time but they had a rocking Ray Harryhousen exhibition.
Here are a few pictures: (Don't you just hate it when people insist on showing you pictures from their holiday
;-P )
I visited like four different Forbidden Planet stores looking for some action figures missing in my collection (ROTJ Luke, ROTJ Leia, OT Obi-Wan, OT Emperor) and was very disappointed that I couldn't find any of them except for ROTJ Luke.
On the bright side, I did find ROTJ Luke and a very cheap action figure of Jabba's fat dancer and a Sarlacc scene Skiff, also very cheap. And the first charity shop I set foot in had a VHS trilogy set I didn't have.
And as the cherry on top, I heard the STAR WARS Theme played on bagpipes in the streets of Edinburgh :-)
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Now back on topic:
re: 720p vs 1080p:
Yeah, I think I gave several clear reasons why this was 720p only. But I guess I'll have to repeat them:
A) 720p is easier to work with as my computer couldn't handle 1080p in AE (it's really slow even with 720p).
B) The despecializations would stand out even more, especially those where I had to use GOUT only.
C) 720p looks great even on really big screens (most theatrical prints don't have resolution much higher than that).
D) I don't have a BD burner, so I'm sticking with AVCHD and for that 720p is definitely better. Just look at this.
And E) Doing a 1080p version now would mean redoing the whole thing from scratch as I worked with 720p from the beginning.
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re: covers
I'll see what I can do. I have some plans in the trilogy box area but I didn't start working on it yet.
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re: missing part on MU: It's probably just temporarily unavailable, so try switching JD off for a few hours and then try again, it should work.
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Now to v1.2:
I have now decided not to use the Blu-Rays for the new version of my edits, since there are even more changes and it is of course the exact same transfer. It's a pity about the compression artefacts but I just wouldn't feel safe using it as my source at least until it was scrutinized very thoroughly for all the new changes.
Now, I'm having quite a hard time keeping track of all the suggestions for v1.2, so if some kind soul could go through the thread and make a nice little list for me, that would be nice. Also, it would be good if you guys who send me suggestions via PM could repost them here, because it's practically impossible to find suggestion among the hundreds of PMs I have in my inbox. Thanks.